2 Feature Descriptions

This chapter provides a summary of new features and updates to the existing features for Network Analytics Suite products released in 24.1.x.

OCNWDAF Feature Descriptions

Release 24.1.0

Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function (OCNWDAF) 24.1.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • Slice Load Monitoring Enhanced: The Slice Load Monitoring screen in the GUI is enhanced with tabs to display different visualization styles of slice data. Now, three different tabs displaying the Active Slices, Line Charts, and the Tracking Areas present the slice load data. The Active Slices tab displays the Registered Slices, information about the Registered Slices, and a map view of the slices. The Line Chart tab displays the Slice Load data in Line Chart format and information about the Registered Slices. The Tracking Areas tab displays the tracking areas in the Registered Slices and a map view of the tracking areas. All tabs display information about the Slice Load Threshold Events. The newly introduced multilayer feature enhances user view by allowing the choice of the order in which the slices and areas are drawn in the map view. On changing the order of the listed slices and tracking areas, the map view gets updated accordingly. Viewing overlapping slices and tracking areas is more precise in the map view. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. The internal procedure used to calculate metrics is upgraded to derive accurate Slice Load metrics. Configure the Data Director as specified in the section "Configuring Data Director" in the Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide to view the accurate Slice Load Metrics.
  • Capex Optimization: The Capex Optimization feature aids in identifying network areas that require additional resources due to the high density of preferred subscribers and network activity. A new microservice has been introduced to interface between the Portal service and the Analytics DB service to create Capex groups and view Capex analytics information. Users can create Capex groups on the GUI and view detailed graphical representations of Capex metrics on the GUI. In this release, this feature is intended only for use case demonstration. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide.
  • Upgraded Versions of Ingress and Egress Gateways, and NRF Client Service: OCNWDAF now supports upgraded versions of Ingress and Egress gateways, and the NRF Client Service. This upgrade is a part of the architectural enhancement for OCNWDAF. For information on the latest versions supported, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Machine Learning (ML) Model Replication in Georedundant Deployments: Georedundancy is used to mitigate network failures and ensure service continuity in a network. To implement georedundancy, information from one site is replicated across multiple sites to efficiently handle failure scenarios and ensure High Availability (HA). The OCNWDAF now supports ML Model replication along with data replication. The ML models created by the Model Executor service are replicated across all georedundant sites. For more information on ML Model Replication, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function User Guide. To configure this feature, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Installation and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Performance Metrics for Deployment: Scaling an OCNWDAF deployment and utilizing it to its maximum potential requires a detailed understanding of the resources needed for data collection, processing, storage, model training, subscriptions, and analytics information requests. Extensive Benchmark testing provided insights on storage and sizing recommendations, limitations, Database Benchmarking, and deployment suggestions to overcome the identified constraints. For more information, see Oracle Communications Networks Data Analytics Function Benchmarking Guide.

OCNADD Feature Descriptions

Release 24.1.0

Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director (OCNADD) 24.1.0 has been updated with the following enhancements:

  • OCNADD Support on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI): In addition to Cloud Native Environment (CNE), OCNADD can now be deployed, scaled, and optimized within the OCI environment too. For more information about support for OCI, see Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide and Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.
  • Two-Site Redundancy: The Two-Site Redundancy feature enhances system reliability and availability by introducing service redundancy capabilities across OCNADD sites. In the event of OCNADD site failure or communication failure between NFs and OCNADD site, the feature ensures uninterrupted data processing by seamlessly transitioning services to the other OCNADD site as and when NFs can switch the traffic to the other OCNADD site. Centralized deployment is a prerequisite for this feature. For more information, see the "Two-Site Redundancy" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Message Sequencing: The Message Sequencing feature enhances transactional message delivery from OCNADD to third-party applications. This capability ensures the ordered and reliable transmission of messages, contributing to a more robust and dependable communication mechanism. For more information, see the "Message Sequencing" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Synthetic Packet Generation (Enhancement): The existing feature of "Synthetic Packet Generation" is enhanced to support the following:
    • TCP and HTTP2 Connection Message: This feature enables the addition of TCP and HTTP2 connection messages at the beginning of HTTP2 frames for each new connection.
    • Synthetic Packet Segmentation: The length of synthetic packet segmentation is configured through synthetic feed configuration. Based on the configured length, the synthetic packet will be segmented and transmitted to the third-party application.
    • HTTP2 Connection-based STREAM-ID: This feature enables the Data Director to generate a stream-id instead of using a correlation-id in place of synthetic encoded HTTP2 packets.

    For more information, see "Synthetic Packet Generation" in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.

  • Support for Admin User and Access Control: OCNADD now supports three types of users with different access control levels. The users can be created using CNC Console and assigned any of the three roles (Admin, Read/Write, and Read). For more information, see the "OCNADD Users" section in the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director User Guide.
  • Performance Improvements: The following performance figures are benchmarked:
    • HTTP2 Feed 109K MPS with replication
    • Synthetic feed 109K MPS with replication
    • Message Sequencing with 109K MPS (Note that additional latency may be observed because of sequencing)

    For more information, see the Oracle Communications Network Analytics Data Director Benchmarking Guide.